Uttarakhand rains: IMD predicts heavy rainfall; three labourers washed away as bridge collapses

Express News Service

DEHRADUN: At least 50 homes had been broken in a cloudburst in Okhladunga space of Uttarakhand’s Nainital district. The administration has shifted the affected households to safer locations.

Nainital District Disaster Management Officer Shailesh Kumar advised The New Indian Express, “Due to heavy rains, debris and water have entered the fields and houses of the villagers, fortunately there has been no loss of life and property”.

The villagers who’ve been briefly shifted to aid camps have been supplied with meals and all the required services by the administration.

Taking cognizance of the cloudburst incident in Okhaldhunga, district in-charge and Cabinet minister Rekha Arya instantly directed District Magistrate Nainital Vandana to take crucial motion. Minister Arya additionally directed the DM to supply help together with catastrophe aid and rescue work on the earliest.

In one other incident, one of many eight occupants of an SUV was killed and 7 others had been rescued by police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) after they had been swept away in a drain at Dhikuli in Ramnagar space.

According to police sources, “Due to the robust move of water from the Corbett forest space, a rivulet in Dhikuli overflowed and a SUV coming from Delhi was washed away. Around 2.30 am, the household of native resident Yogesh Chimwal, together with folks from the neighborhood, by some means managed to tug out the occupants of the SUV car.

During this time two folks had been swept away with the car. Later, fireplace brigade personnel reached the spot and pulled each of them out of the car. All of them had been admitted to the federal government hospital in Ramnagar, the place a younger man named Prakash Chandra Phulara was referred to the Higher Center as his situation was severe, who died on the best way.

In Chamoli district, two labourers had been washed away within the Alaknanda river after the construction of the bridge collapsed at Badrinath Dham throughout the building of an alternate bridge below the grasp plan. One employee was rescued, however the different employee is lacking.SDRF crew has reached the spot.

Chamoli Superintendent of Police Pramendra Dobhal advised this newspaper, “The search for the missing laborer is going on. The bridge construction work was being carried out under the master plan by the PIU Public Works Department near Brahma Kapal when the accident took place”.

State Meteorological Centre Director Dr Bikram Singh advised this newspaper, “The weather pattern in the state will remain the same till August 5, in view of which a yellow alert of rain has been issued again in the state”.

DEHRADUN: At least 50 homes had been broken in a cloudburst in Okhladunga space of Uttarakhand’s Nainital district. The administration has shifted the affected households to safer locations.

Nainital District Disaster Management Officer Shailesh Kumar advised The New Indian Express, “Due to heavy rains, debris and water have entered the fields and houses of the villagers, fortunately there has been no loss of life and property”.

The villagers who’ve been briefly shifted to aid camps have been supplied with meals and all the required services by the administration.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Taking cognizance of the cloudburst incident in Okhaldhunga, district in-charge and Cabinet minister Rekha Arya instantly directed District Magistrate Nainital Vandana to take crucial motion. Minister Arya additionally directed the DM to supply help together with catastrophe aid and rescue work on the earliest.

In one other incident, one of many eight occupants of an SUV was killed and 7 others had been rescued by police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) after they had been swept away in a drain at Dhikuli in Ramnagar space.

According to police sources, “Due to the robust move of water from the Corbett forest space, a rivulet in Dhikuli overflowed and a SUV coming from Delhi was washed away. Around 2.30 am, the household of native resident Yogesh Chimwal, together with folks from the neighborhood, by some means managed to tug out the occupants of the SUV car.

During this time two folks had been swept away with the car. Later, fireplace brigade personnel reached the spot and pulled each of them out of the car. All of them had been admitted to the federal government hospital in Ramnagar, the place a younger man named Prakash Chandra Phulara was referred to the Higher Center as his situation was severe, who died on the best way.

In Chamoli district, two labourers had been washed away within the Alaknanda river after the construction of the bridge collapsed at Badrinath Dham throughout the building of an alternate bridge below the grasp plan. One employee was rescued, however the different employee is lacking.SDRF crew has reached the spot.

Chamoli Superintendent of Police Pramendra Dobhal advised this newspaper, “The search for the missing laborer is going on. The bridge construction work was being carried out under the master plan by the PIU Public Works Department near Brahma Kapal when the accident took place”.

State Meteorological Centre Director Dr Bikram Singh advised this newspaper, “The weather pattern in the state will remain the same till August 5, in view of which a yellow alert of rain has been issued again in the state”.